Chapter 7
Two weeks later...
Faith
Today I go to work, the child there he decided to give me an all-nighter, I'm hungry but I don't feel like throwing up all day so I'm just taking a juice, I'm getting ready then quickly I put on a navy blue suit dress, with Tallon, I take an outing bag, in which I put a room biscuit, a computer and some things, off to work...
I arrive very early this morning, at the reception I am told that the bump is there and that he has asked me to come and see him, she shows me her office, when I arrive I knock on the door and I am asked to enter
When I enter I find a large desk made from solid wood painted black, and behind is a man, a white man, with his back to the desk, he was actually a bay window, he is tall, muscular, he wears a black suit that seems to be tailor-made...
me: hello
Him: hello
When he turns around, I literally break down....
CHRISTOPHER
For some time I have signed contracts for the construction of buildings and residential residences in Togo, so I created a subsidiary of my company in the capital Lomé, to facilitate the coordination and execution of the works, to a start I'm going to settle in the country for a few months to train my team before leaving, I don't like lazy people, I like a job well done, that's what pushes me to pay my employees well, I adds bonuses to them every month to make them feel comfortable, i hate incompetence
I contacted an agency and sent them what I'm looking for, this morning I'm going to talk to all my employees and put them to the test for a while, I don't intend to keep lazy and incompetent people who will rushing the job is about my company's image and my reputation.
I receive the employees one by one to talk to them and explain to everyone what they will have to do as work in my company, one of the engineers has just left, I get up, I pose in front of the 'huge bay window behind my desk admiring the view I was lost in thought, it's a knock on the door that melts me out of my thoughts, I ask the person to enter, and me still in front of the bay window, I hear a person entering
Voice: hello sir
This voice gives me chills, I feel like I've heard it before
me: hello
When I turn around, what I see paralyzes me, no, but I'm dreaming, I've been thinking about this girl so much that now I'm starting to see her everywhere, she's also standing there in front of me without moving, it doesn't look like she's the fruit of my imagination and that she is really real she seems just as surprised as me, I want to take her in my arms, but I feel an anger that I have kept inside me for all these months mounted, she disappears several me and appears in front as if nothing had happened, I'm not going to throw myself at his feet, I'm going to install a distance between us right now even if my body and my heart cries the opposite….
FAITH
Shit what's going on here, I'm at the end of my life, I want to get out of this room but I can't I can't make a move and I wonder how my feet still manage to support me I don't feel at all good there, but I try to put on an impassive face and not show my distress; it is he who first breaks the silence which becomes a little too heavy
Aaron: no but what are you doing here
Me: I'm the assistant and I normally had to see a certain Christopher Martin
Aaron: it's me Christopher
Me: so you also lied about your name
Aaron: what did I lie to you about, Aaron is also my name and it was not me who left
Me with a high-pitched laugh: I left, you quickly forget things, it wasn't me who fled after that night at dawn like a thief
Aaron: I fled, what do you do with the note I left asking you to wait for me, I left you my villa, something I never do, anyway, that night, never I will made a promise
Me: no but what are you talking about, I never insinuated that you made me promises
Aaron: anyway that's not the point don't think that because we slept together there will be preferential treatment for you, I intend to treat you like all the other employees, I will put you on the test for a week and if the result is not good you will be fired, your office will be in front of mine, it must always be open I must keep an eye on you if you still think of run away, now you can get out of my office
He speaks to me with such indifference it breaks my heart, I would like to add something else but no sound comes out, I open my mouth but it closes, this man is different from the one I knew there a few months away, this one is so cold and distant, my GOD my hands are shaking but I still keep my head up I fight back the tears that want to fall, when I go out I rush to the bathroom or I vomit and let my tears flow, I don't know if I'm going to be able to bear all this but I need this job, I have to be brave for my baby.
I freshen up and I go back to my desk, which I don't forget to leave open, and I plunge my head into the files on my desk….